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One Senate race was still undecided today, but no matter the outcome, the Republicans will control the Senate when the new Congress convenes in January. Indeed, they may hold the reins, if somewhat loosely, when the Senate reconvenes for a lame-duck...

Senator John McCain, the Arizona Republican, said it early in the evening, ''I see a Republican breeze blowing,'' and a few hours later he was proved right. If it cannot yet be declared a cyclone, it was still powerful enough to give President...

The Republicans' razor-thin reversal of fortune in the Senate removed the Democrats' sole power base in Washington and breathed new life into President Bush's stalled domestic agenda in Congress, from contested judicial nominations to deeper tax cuts...

When Senator Jean Carnahan mentioned the death of Paul Wellstone at a boisterous labor rally this week, the Teamsters hall went silent, and not just out of respect for his memory. The crowd seemed to lean forward, as if morbidly wondering whether she...

November 1, 2002, Friday

The six-seat, twin-engine plane climbed 5,000 feet into the bright September sky over Kansas City. I was seated directly across from Jean Carnahan, Missouri's junior senator, who had stopped flipping through her briefing papers and was gazing out the...

President Bush dropped into the middle of two pivotal Senate races today as he campaigned for a pair of Republican candidates recruited by the White House, former Representative Jim Talent of Missouri and former Mayor Norm Coleman of St. Paul, whose...